European, not only German. Gorenje has one of the best home appliances, better design, better longevity, better energy savings, and costs half the price of a comparable Miele or Bosh.
I got so used to the damn ice maker in those new side-by-side fridges, I really can't survive going back to the trays and filling them with water, sticking them in the freezer and breaking them when wanting some ice. Aside of that, the Fridge/Freezer progress hasn't evolved much as you say, a fridge from 40 years has the same basic guts as a fridge from 2016.
You might want to consider other brand of ice maker to use. There are only few release from Samsung. But you might need to read some of my reviews and a helpful buying guide before buying. You can check my ice maker reviews here : http://foodplusice.com
So much unnecessary complexity for appliances. When a robot can interact with them, go shopping and cook a meal then I will be interested. More stuff to break/replace/upgrade in the meantime. Also, no to all the smartTVs after reading about getting unwanted ads. From now on, I'm sticking to Rokus and the smart features built-in to TVs will not be a selling point anymore.
Totally agree. They made things way too complicate with the home appliances. With the TV, hoping they'll make a "dumb" model with amazing image and quality for people like me, my first gen chromecast took care all my "smart" TV needs.
There is a market for people who want simple home appliances. For example I want a microwave with two knobs - power and time. The rest is meaningless crap that could do anything depending on their interpretation of my needs. Same with washer - just needs a temperature and a type of clothing (I. E. Standard, delicate, heavy soil, half load). The more complex an item of this kind, the less I find it meets my needs... That said, I shave with either a straight edge or a slant bar so I'm probably a little old fashioned.
You have to wonder how much innovation is being stifled by Comcast and their data caps. I'd love to stream HDR 4K but unfortunately I'd only get a few dozen hours of that per month before my cap was exceeded. My adoption of 4K (or lack thereof) is in direct correlation to my ability to stream videos in 4K, which no person reasonably can with the limitations currently in place. The barriers from entry into the ISP space need to be reduced/eliminated so the US can catch up to the rest of the world.
I have a 6gb cap purely for mobile data and I've exceeded that a few times. Bearing in mind morning and evening are served by WiFi, I dread to think of the impact of a broadband data cap. I'd probably implode.
Yeah, I have an LTE modem/router as my home internet connection (50/20 mbps, 20 €/mo). Last year I had multiple months with over 1 terabyte of data transferred per month. I have no idea how people in the US can manage with those miserable data caps on everything.
I feel like an old kodger for saying I will never pay to have a goddam screen on my fridge. A lot of this tech is just so far beyond stupid. CES 2017 has been an utter disappointment. It seems like everything is geared toward the blatant vanity of the top 0.1%. And that introduces a paradox because you dont get to be in the 0.1% by wasting your money on useless crap like a giant screen on a fridge. It's not arguably useless, it is completely frickin useless. You want to know whats in your fridge, you open the door and look, all in less time than it takes to poke around on some stupid screen.
Samsung refrigerators, once failed, very hard to repair. Need authorized agent, and speaking from experience, they do not know jack. Had to find compatible parts on my own and repair myself. Never will purchase Samsung appliances again.
There is a huge difference between the way Samsung advertises Quantum Dot Tech at this CES event and the way LG is advertising right now at other Tech sites
Samsung > Quantum Dot technology: improved image quality supports "nearly all" of DCI P3 color space ----------------------------------------------------------- LG Ad - Improved color "Accuracy" from quantum dot film tech ----------------------------------------------------------- If I understand The Film Technology correctly, Quantum Dot Film tech ADDs colors that were never there so it is misleading to say it improves color accuracy as LG is doing
For example, if I add a quantum dot film to a 256 color LCD display to recreate billions of colors to the eye, the new colors in no way relate to accurate colors
It can improve the "perception" of accuracy but there is no fidelity to the actual source material
Please respond to the following statement: A monitor that "accurately" reproduces the entire color spectrum and dynamic range is currently FAR beyond the current tech available today
Is that statement accurate and can you comment further?
Our eyes see only red, green, and blue. Something yellow, for example, is just triggering two different receptors in our eyes at the same time. When lighting rooms and things, you need to take colour rendering accuracy into account; but in this case it's just pure image from the screen, so the light can be purely r/g/b. Literally the only colours we see are a billion combinations of red, green, and blue light.
Traditional 'white' LEDs send pure blue or violet light through a fluorescent material that transforms it into white light (that is, a wasteful set of various colour wavelengths). Two thirds of that light are filtered out to strip out all the waste colours. The quantum-dot add-in takes the light from pure blue LEDs and converts a third of it to pure red and a third of it to pure green. Since the light entering the LCD matrix is now purely r/g/b, no additional filtering is needed. The purer the elemental colour is, the larger the possible gamut.
If you added a quantum-dot layer to a 256-colour LCD, you could have 256 very accurate colours. There would be a lot of banding in the gradients, though. That's not a question of accurate colours, though, as much as it is about resolution.
tl;dr: The light coming out of the quantum layer can be tuned to precisely the values accepted by the average human eye, and so the colour can be controlled to a far greater degree. The pure colours are also purer, which lets them expand out to larger gamuts.
The limited info I read sounded like the film was adding colors instead of correcting colors
However, If I did take colour rendering accuracy into account, could the quantum-dot film IMPROVE the CRI value of LEDs for Video Lighting?
Now that Flashlights are just beginning to approach usable consistent output levels above 2500 Lumens for over an hour @ 90+CRI and have tripod mounts, I'd like to see more of them like the Manker MK34 with Nichia 219 B or C LEDs
It will be another HUGE market soon if the maximum output levels are "Stable" for an hour or 2 Wink Wink Hint Hint
Add a variable level control to a wireless remote or cellphone app for this kind of light and it would be a studio favorite in Zero Time!
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Lolimaster - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Want a home appliance?Go german, japanese, southamerican or US brands, never korean.
uRtard - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
hurrFMinus - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
European, not only German. Gorenje has one of the best home appliances, better design, better longevity, better energy savings, and costs half the price of a comparable Miele or Bosh.Lolimaster - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Mi peruvian made fridge running for 35years, 0 problems.FMinus - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
I got so used to the damn ice maker in those new side-by-side fridges, I really can't survive going back to the trays and filling them with water, sticking them in the freezer and breaking them when wanting some ice. Aside of that, the Fridge/Freezer progress hasn't evolved much as you say, a fridge from 40 years has the same basic guts as a fridge from 2016.Jerry Boyce - Monday, January 9, 2017 - link
You might want to consider other brand of ice maker to use. There are only few release from Samsung. But you might need to read some of my reviews and a helpful buying guide before buying. You can check my ice maker reviews here : http://foodplusice.comCheers!
leexgx - Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - link
apart from that newer fridges are made to fail sooner then do ones (made to cheap now)Tewt - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
So much unnecessary complexity for appliances. When a robot can interact with them, go shopping and cook a meal then I will be interested. More stuff to break/replace/upgrade in the meantime. Also, no to all the smartTVs after reading about getting unwanted ads. From now on, I'm sticking to Rokus and the smart features built-in to TVs will not be a selling point anymore.amdwilliam1985 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
Totally agree. They made things way too complicate with the home appliances.With the TV, hoping they'll make a "dumb" model with amazing image and quality for people like me, my first gen chromecast took care all my "smart" TV needs.
amdwilliam1985 - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
recently saw some news about smart tv getting soft bricked, lol, another reason to stick with dumb tv with addons like chromecast.FMinus - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
I miss the days on Pioneer Kuros, where the screen was just a screen, taking input of whatever you plug in.fanofanand - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
"05:09PM EST - every Samsung TV will be a smart TV"I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Looks like you will need to shop elsewhere as Samsung doesn't believe people like you exist.
philehidiot - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
There is a market for people who want simple home appliances. For example I want a microwave with two knobs - power and time. The rest is meaningless crap that could do anything depending on their interpretation of my needs. Same with washer - just needs a temperature and a type of clothing (I. E. Standard, delicate, heavy soil, half load). The more complex an item of this kind, the less I find it meets my needs... That said, I shave with either a straight edge or a slant bar so I'm probably a little old fashioned.Meteor2 - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
You can still buy simple appliances. You can also now buy more sophisticated stuff which some people find useful. I can't see the problem.jm04sure - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
Just another easy way to spread Denial of Service via hacking your fridge.fanofanand - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
You have to wonder how much innovation is being stifled by Comcast and their data caps. I'd love to stream HDR 4K but unfortunately I'd only get a few dozen hours of that per month before my cap was exceeded. My adoption of 4K (or lack thereof) is in direct correlation to my ability to stream videos in 4K, which no person reasonably can with the limitations currently in place. The barriers from entry into the ISP space need to be reduced/eliminated so the US can catch up to the rest of the world.FMinus - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
True, if I had caps here in Europe, I'd be without internet by the 5th of each month, probably sooner.philehidiot - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
I have a 6gb cap purely for mobile data and I've exceeded that a few times. Bearing in mind morning and evening are served by WiFi, I dread to think of the impact of a broadband data cap. I'd probably implode.Kepe - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
Yeah, I have an LTE modem/router as my home internet connection (50/20 mbps, 20 €/mo). Last year I had multiple months with over 1 terabyte of data transferred per month. I have no idea how people in the US can manage with those miserable data caps on everything.m2inor - Thursday, January 5, 2017 - link
No data caps with my 30/30 Mbps Frontier FiOS connection.Frontier purchased the FiOS service from Verizon here in Oregon.
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
I feel like an old kodger for saying I will never pay to have a goddam screen on my fridge. A lot of this tech is just so far beyond stupid. CES 2017 has been an utter disappointment. It seems like everything is geared toward the blatant vanity of the top 0.1%. And that introduces a paradox because you dont get to be in the 0.1% by wasting your money on useless crap like a giant screen on a fridge. It's not arguably useless, it is completely frickin useless. You want to know whats in your fridge, you open the door and look, all in less time than it takes to poke around on some stupid screen.jm04sure - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
Samsung refrigerators, once failed, very hard to repair. Need authorized agent, and speaking from experience, they do not know jack. Had to find compatible parts on my own and repair myself. Never will purchase Samsung appliances again.Bullwinkle J Moose - Friday, January 6, 2017 - link
There is a huge difference between the way Samsung advertises Quantum Dot Tech at this CES event and the way LG is advertising right now at other Tech sitesSamsung >
Quantum Dot technology: improved image quality
supports "nearly all" of DCI P3 color space
-----------------------------------------------------------
LG Ad - Improved color "Accuracy" from quantum dot film tech
-----------------------------------------------------------
If I understand The Film Technology correctly, Quantum Dot Film tech ADDs colors that were never there so it is misleading to say it improves color accuracy as LG is doing
For example, if I add a quantum dot film to a 256 color LCD display to recreate billions of colors to the eye, the new colors in no way relate to accurate colors
It can improve the "perception" of accuracy but there is no fidelity to the actual source material
Please respond to the following statement:
A monitor that "accurately" reproduces the entire color spectrum and dynamic range is currently FAR beyond the current tech available today
Is that statement accurate and can you comment further?
mkozakewich - Sunday, January 8, 2017 - link
Our eyes see only red, green, and blue. Something yellow, for example, is just triggering two different receptors in our eyes at the same time.When lighting rooms and things, you need to take colour rendering accuracy into account; but in this case it's just pure image from the screen, so the light can be purely r/g/b. Literally the only colours we see are a billion combinations of red, green, and blue light.
Traditional 'white' LEDs send pure blue or violet light through a fluorescent material that transforms it into white light (that is, a wasteful set of various colour wavelengths). Two thirds of that light are filtered out to strip out all the waste colours.
The quantum-dot add-in takes the light from pure blue LEDs and converts a third of it to pure red and a third of it to pure green. Since the light entering the LCD matrix is now purely r/g/b, no additional filtering is needed. The purer the elemental colour is, the larger the possible gamut.
If you added a quantum-dot layer to a 256-colour LCD, you could have 256 very accurate colours. There would be a lot of banding in the gradients, though. That's not a question of accurate colours, though, as much as it is about resolution.
tl;dr: The light coming out of the quantum layer can be tuned to precisely the values accepted by the average human eye, and so the colour can be controlled to a far greater degree. The pure colours are also purer, which lets them expand out to larger gamuts.
Bullwinkle J Moose - Monday, January 9, 2017 - link
Thanks mkozakewichThe limited info I read sounded like the film was adding colors instead of correcting colors
However, If I did take colour rendering accuracy into account, could the quantum-dot film IMPROVE the CRI value of LEDs for Video Lighting?
Now that Flashlights are just beginning to approach usable consistent output levels above 2500 Lumens for over an hour @ 90+CRI and have tripod mounts, I'd like to see more of them like the Manker MK34 with Nichia 219 B or C LEDs
It will be another HUGE market soon if the maximum output levels are "Stable" for an hour or 2
Wink Wink Hint Hint
Add a variable level control to a wireless remote or cellphone app for this kind of light and it would be a studio favorite in Zero Time!
oranos - Saturday, January 7, 2017 - link
lmao Samsung trolling Apple by micro-analyzing features